Alexander Boon (Politician)

[dbcowboy]

		Name:	Alexander Boone
		Archetype:	Politician
		Description
Anchor (PC):	Daniel Perez	Drive:	This is a new beginning
Anchor (NPC):	Fleur LeBlanc	Issues:	I promise more than I can deliver
Notes:

ATTRIBUTES AND SKILLS
2	Strength	3	Agility	3	Wits	5	Empathy
1	Close Combat	2	Mobility		Scout	2	Leadership
	Endure	2	Ranged Combat	2	Survival	3	Manipulation
	Force		Stealth		Tech		Medicine

Talents Talent Notes Right Word at the Right TimeWhen you succeed with Leadership, you get an automatic extra success. *Prerequisite*: You had them in the palm of your hand.

Health (Stress: 0) 3. Unharmed 2. Bruised   1. Battered   0. Broken   Conditions:

WEAPONS Damage Bonus Range Assault Rifle 2 3 Long 2 Knives 1 2 Close                         ARMOR Protection Penalty

GEAR (Encumbrance Slots: ) Gear Slots Bonus Notes for a book about this new era 1/2   Autographed picture with Bill Murray 0               Stored Gear Location Tiny Items

Background

Most folks before the outbreak wouldn't be able to name their state congressman. Most folks, that is, unless they were members of the Born Again Flock of the Mount mega church in Little Rock. Reverend Jacob Boone made certain of that. He'd groomed his son, Alex, originally to join him on stage, but the boy was rebellious and one final incident forced him to consider other options. Given the choice the young Boone would have become a fishing guide, probably on Beaver Lake where the church youth group used to have their retreat every Summer. No, no that wouldn't do.

But much as Alex may have resisted his father, he did like lavish living. He did like the girls of the congregation. And all his arguing with the Reverend proved beneficial when he ran for class president, then college student body president....eventually he was an Arkansas State Congressman. Though he'd tell himself he'd earned this on his own he knew that the Boone family name drew a strong Southern Christian support thanks to his father. He'd compromised somewhere along the way though he couldn't point to exactly when or where. He'd even married one of the congregation, a family man with a beautiful wife and two daughters projected a strong appeal to voters. Maybe all the way to Washington...

All those dreams fell apart when news started spreading of the new plague. How it made the infected crazy, like rabies, wanting to attack others. Alex had hired extra security for the family's home and to accompany him as he traveled to the state capitol, medical centers, or businesses in support of the relief efforts. He still remembers calling home that morning. He was in Bentonville for a meeting with Walmart on distribution of supplies. His father was holding a large prayer gathering in Little Rock and had asked for Alex's family to be there in a show of faith. Alex had told his wife it was just for the cameras. She said she wouldn't go, she'd always been one of the faithful but she said she wouldn't go. She promised she wouldn't take the girls out...

The church broadcast was cut thankfully short so he never saw the end for his family. The situation wasn't much better there in the Northwest; two days later Bentonville was collapsing and Alex could barely rouse himself from his depression to help. It was actually one of his father's congregation that got him out in the convoy. 18 Walmart tractor trailers loaded with people, plowing their way out of the town; fortunately Alex was on one of the few that made it. Fires from the burning of the city helped to light the night and the roar of fighter jets as they delivered their deadly but useless payloads covered people's escape.

He was on the move a lot after that. At one point Alex managed to find the old lake house he'd visited as a kid but the area wasn't safe. It wasn't just the dead but a group of folks out in the middle of the lake that had made a floating community out of at least 20 boats. A few came ashore in canoes when they spotted his movement; they were heavily armed and didn't look friendly. As he would do so often in the days to come, Alex ran.

One thing he did have time to do in those weeks that turned into months, when sleep wouldn't come because of hunger and fear, was think of the future. Should he just join his girls? Should he keep laying where he was and never get back up? At some point, when he'd managed to find a new group of survivors that hadn't immediately tried to steal what little he had, he got the crazy idea that maybe, just maybe, people could make it in this new world. The old rule, old titles, they didn't mean anything now. There was no need to hold on to beliefs and routines that had failed, heck, that had helped to destroy everything and everyone before.

Maybe we could start again?

Edited April 4 by dbcowboy (see edit history)

[dbcowboy]

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[Laird_Thorne]

Definitely an interesting and workable background. :)

I have to think on some appropriate questions to expand on.. lol

 

[dbcowboy]

Scavenging roll

Scavenging roll

113 -> Celebrity autograph

Hmmm, might need to think about that one

Edited April 4 by dbcowboy (see edit history)

[Starhawk]

If it's Bull Murray's autograph.. no thinking necessary.

[Neopopulas]

[dbcowboy]

Hell YES it is!

[dbcowboy]

Alex's political connections snagged him a spot on the 2022 Caddyshack Charity Golf Tournament where he actually got to meet Bill Murray. Caddyshack was always one of his favorite movies; he watched it at a friend's house when he was 12, his father would never have allowed him to see it at home. He got a picture with Bill there, dressed in an outlandish golf shirt, that Bill signed afterwards and has always kept it in his wallet

Cool that opens up some opportunity for an out-of-the-blue Bill Murray movie quote just to make folks pause and think, "What the...did he just say that??"